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Eric Hooglund sees his classroom as a forum in which students can confront stereotypes about Muslim countries and Islam by learning about the diverse societies and complex politics that characterize a region popularly known as the Islamic world and too often is portrayed, especially in the media, as a potentially threatening monolith. His background includes 30 years of research, teaching, and writing about the domestic politics and international relations of countries in the Middle East and also of US foreign policy toward that region. His particular expertise is Iran, a country in which he is one of very few American scholars who continues to undertake field research. Prior to coming to Bates, Hooglund taught at several universities, including Bowdoin College, the University of Shiraz in Iran, Ohio State University in Columbus, the University of California at Berkeley, St Antony’s College at Oxford University, and Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Since 1995, he has been the editor of Critique: Critical Middle East Studies, a unique scholarly journal that examines issues of class, ethnicity, gender, and religion in the history and politics of the Middle East. In addition to writing more than 100 articles and book chapters about the history, politics and society of Iran and other Middle Eastern countries, he is the author or contributing editor of the following books: Land and Revolution in Iran (University of Texas Press, 1982); Iranian Revolution and the Islamic Republic (with Nikki Keddie, Syracuse University Press, 1986); Crossing the Waters: Arabic-Speaking Immigration to the United States before 1940 (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987); Twenty Years of Islamic Revolution (Syracuse University Press, 2002); and Encyclopaedia of the Modern Middle East, 2nd ed., 4 volumes (with Philip Mattar, et al, Thomsen-Gale, 2004). Currently he is writing a book about Iran and the international community for Polity Press of Cambridge.
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Hooglund, Eric J.
Visiting Professor
207-786-6391
Pettengill Hall, Room 172
ehooglun@bates.edu
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